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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
AMASA O. WOODBURY, OF PENNINGTON, TEXAS.
COTTON-CHOPPER.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 403,403, dated May 14, 1889.
Application filed January 2, 1889. Serial No, 295,222, (No model,)
To acl whom it 7cmay concern: The inner ends of these bars are secured to
Be it known that I, AMASA O. WOODBURY, collars e' on axle b2, and to their outer ends
a citizen of the United States of America, re- are attached hoe-blades e2 e2, designed to over-
siding at Pennington, in the county of Trinity lap each other at their contiguous ends. The
5 and State of Texas, have invented certain new inner portions of these hoe-bars F are made
and useful Improvements in Cotton-Choppers, of spring metal, which holds the rollers firm
of which the following is a specification, ref- against the inclined or tapering edges of the
erence being had therein to the accompany- rim of wheel B.
ing drawings. In practice the cotton-fenders b' fit over
to This invention pertains to certain new and the hills of cotton and the revolution of said
useful improvements in cotton-choppers, the wheel causes the operation of the hoes. As
same being capable of application to culti- each fender encompasses a cotton-hill, the rol-
vators or double plows. lers e e pass over the offsets E E on wheel B,
The invention comprises the details of con- and the hoes immediately overlap, chopping
z5 struction, combination, and arrangement of between the hills of cotton.
parts, substantially. as hereinafter fully set The advantages of my invention will be ap-
forth, and particularly pointed out in the parent to those skilled in the art to which it
claims, appertains. The same is extremely simple
In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is and productive of good results.
20 a view in perspective of my invention. Fig. I claim as my invention-
2 is a transverse sectional view on the line x 1. As an improvement in cotton-choppers,
x, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a detail. the wheel having the cotton-fenders, and the
Referring to the drawings, A designates a overlapping hoes having their bars operated
cultivator-frame having the ordinary shovels, by said wheel, substantially as set forth.
25 CC C. 2. The combination, with the frame and
B is a wheel having a series of arms, b, pro- axle, of the axle-supporting boxes or tubes C,
vided with U-shaped plates b', designed to the blocks D, the springs d, and the adjust-
fit over or encompass the hills of cotton, and ing-screws d', whereby the axle-wheel is jour-
thereby protect the same and prevent the naled in a yielding bearing, substantially as
30 shovels from covering said hills. The ends shown and described.
of axle b2 of this wheel are secured in hollow 3. The combination, in a cotton-chopper, of
tubes C C, attached to the sides of the frame, the wheel having the series of arms, the V-
and upon said ends of the axle bear blocks shaped fenders secured thereto, the rim hav-
D D, to which coil-springs d d are secured, ing offsets and tapering side edges, the hoe-
35 the upper ends of said springs having screws bars having rollers, and overlapping hoes at
d' bearing thereon. Bymeansof said screws their outer ends, substantially as set forth.
and springs the axle can be held at the de- In testimony whereof I affix my signature in
sired tension. presence of two witnesses.
The rim of wheel B is provided with a se- AMASA O. WOODBURY.
40 ries of uniform offsets, E E, and curved or Witnesses:
tapering side edges, against which are de- II. J. MANGUM,
signed to bear rollers e e of hoe-bars F F. S. H. TULLAS.
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Woodbury, Amasa O. Cotton Chopper., patent, May 14, 1889; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth172040/m1/2/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.